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A. M. DeWitt wrote on Tue, Jan 24, 2023 04:43 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 12:12 PM:

The extensive testing you do in BadZone() slows things down enormously. It is questionable whether this variant can ever be played by the Diagram's AI, (it outlasted my patience even at 2 ply), but this extra processing certainly doesn't help. If you need this amount of programming to make it work, it might be simpler to just replace some functions of the original script by slightly modified ones of your own. JavaScript allows you to redefine a function.

The amount of testing required for the Fire Demon was mainly because of the branching cases. With the new version, not only was I able to use the code from your comment to make the check much shorter, I was even able to remove three of the supporting functions because of this. As for code in general, sure, it will slow things down a lot, but that is to be expected from a complex game like Suzumu Shogi. You could treat it like a correspondence game in GC, though, so I was never too worried about it being too slow. I could probably do some optimization (I've saved this comment in my favorites), but right now I am just happy that everything is working properly.


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